The child process does not spawn successfully Error: spawn mongodump ENOENT

Description

Hi.

I have a GitHub Action set up to backup a database. This GitHub Action has been running for months without incident, but now it has stopped working. After a bit of research I have found the problem. runs-on: ubuntu-latest was using Ubuntu 20.04 until last week but now use Ubuntu 22. This change causes the GitHub Action to fail (I tested this by modifying my code to use the previous Ubuntu version).

Working Action:

Non Working Action:

Error with Ubuntu 22:

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

20221119.2

Is it regression?

20221027.1

Expected behavior

I expect that the GitHub Action should not fail or at least find a “migration guide” to adapt my code to the latest image of Ubuntu.

Actual behavior

The GitHub Action fail.

Repro steps

Execute the GitHub Action.

This is my code (just relevant parts)

name: Create a backup of the database

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '35 4 2-27/6 * *'
    - cron: '17 6 1 * *'

jobs:
  getBackup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      MONGO_URI: ${{ secrets.MONGO_URI }}
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
      with:
        node-version: '16'
    - run: npm install
    - run: npm run get_backup

	const timeout = 2 * 60 * 1000; // Two minutes
	const date = getDate();

	const backupChildProcess = spawn('mongodump', [
		`--uri=${databaseURI}`,
		`--archive=./backups/${date}.gz`,
		'--gzip'], { timeout: timeout });

	backupChildProcess.on('exit', (code, signal) => {
		if (code || signal) {
			logger.error(`child process exited with code ${code} and signal ${signal}`);
			core.setFailed(`child process exited with code ${code} and signal ${signal}`);
			return;
		}

		logger.info('The database has been successfully backed up');
		core.notice(`The database has been successfully backed up. Created file: ./backups/${date}.gz`);
	});

	backupChildProcess.on('error', (err) => {
		logger.error('The child process does not spawn successfully', err);
		core.setFailed('The child process does not spawn successfully');
	});

[dsame]

@didaquis, you have to this step to your pipeline in order to have it running on 22.04

      - run: |
          sudo wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-6.0.asc | sudo apt-key add -
          sudo echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu focal/mongodb-org/6.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-6.0.list
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
          mongodump --version

According to MongoDB docs mongodb is not supported on Ubuntu-22.04 but the snippet above is still able to install mongo cli tools from the official mongo repo

@mikhailkoliada i’ll reassign this ticket to you to handle the further modification of the runner image

[dsame]

Hello @didaquis, we confirmed the problem is with the ubuntu-22.04 image itself - it does not contain mongodb cli for some reason. Give us, please, a little more time to suggest the workaround.